Multicellular and unicellular responses of microbial biofilms to stress
| Autor: | Praveen K. Singh, Knut Drescher, Daniel K. H. Rode |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Bacteria 030106 microbiology Clinical Biochemistry Biofilm Context (language use) Biology biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition Biochemistry Cell biology Fight-or-flight response 03 medical and health sciences Multicellular organism 030104 developmental biology Stress Physiological Biofilms Humans Increased tolerance Molecular Biology Organizational level Microbial Biofilms |
| Zdroj: | Biological Chemistry |
| Popis: | Biofilms are a ubiquitous mode of microbial life and display an increased tolerance to different stresses. Inside biofilms, cells may experience both externally applied stresses and internal stresses that emerge as a result of growth in spatially structured communities. In this review, we discuss the spatial scales of different stresses in the context of biofilms, and if cells in biofilms respond to these stresses as a collection of individual cells, or if there are multicellular properties associated with the response. Understanding the organizational level of stress responses in microbial communities can help to clarify multicellular functions of biofilms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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